Top 20 Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Western cult of happiness is indeed a strange adventure, something like a collective intoxication. In the guise of emancipation, it transforms a high ideal into its opposite. Condemned to joy, we must be happy or lose all standing in society. It is not a question of knowing whether we are more or less happy than our ancestors; our conception of the thing itself has changed, and we are probably the first society in history to make people unhappy for not being happy. — Pascal Bruckner

But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. — Mitch Albom

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics. — Marc Morano

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person. — Mary Callahan Erdoes

Food matters because it's one of the things that forces us to live in this world
this tactile, physical, messy, and beautiful world
no matter how hard we try to escape into our minds and our ideals. Food is a reminder of our humanity, our fragility, our createdness. — Shauna Niequist

If two people agree on everything, one of them is superfluous. — Martha N. Beck

My friends ask me for advice about guys, because I have so many brothers and I see what guys go through. — Nicola Peltz

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist. — Henri Nouwen

Pushing through her own feeling of panic to find what Kane was trying to communicate to her. It was a bit of a jumble and she strained to make sense of it, finally grasping a repeated thread: I love you. Be ready. — Nicky Charles

As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars. — Ahmed Zewail

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values. — Keeley Hawes

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham

Some sleep too much ... Nowhere do the scriptures say, 'Thou shalt sleep eight hours.' Nor do they say, 'Retire early unless you happen to be a night person.' There must be an excellent reason for the injunction to retire and arise early ... You will profit by this counsel if you heed it ... — Joe J. Christensen

What will happen when there are no more pages in the red notebook? — Paul Auster

We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty. — Samuel Johnson